TUC calling for government to extend furlough and ban zero-hours contracts to help combat disparity

Home secretary says separate scheme evacuating Afghans who helped British forces could double to reach 10,000 people

Train tickets could rise by an average of 4.8 per cent in 2022

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The RSPCA said it welcomed ‘tighter controls over transporting live animals within Great Britain’

The Scottish government is considering making its emergency coronavirus powers, such as the ability to shut schools and impose lockdowns, permanent

Geronimo the alpaca lives to see the other day as a High Court hearing on its destruction order is paused until Wednesday afternoon

1215 English charter was signed before Act of Union and has never applied to Scotland

Boris Johnson accused of kicking crisis into ‘long grass’ with promise to help 20,000 in long-term

Jake Davison, who shot five people before turning his gun on himself, was in contact with a mental health helpline during the eighteen months prior to his attack

Mark Barrott last sighted in Aberdeen, say police

Corporate jargon compared to Tory spin doctor from The Thick of It

‘Freedom is finished,’ one man says

‘ We have to talk with them for everything – even to try to protect women and girls’

App users were not told that they could be asked to isolate if they had been in contact with an infected person five days prior to them testing positive for Covid, rather than two

Social media user posts video of friends accosting Tory MP on Tube

Intelligence agencies monitoring impact of Taliban takeover on jihadists in the UK

Public Health England have warned drug users of a possible link between a spate of fatal overdoses and heroin mixed with a synthetic opioid

UK must be as generous as likes of Canada, prime minister told – but Priti Patel vows to maintain ‘vital security checks’

Victim found unresponsive in on Monday morning

Chancellor has hinted he could ditch promise to raise pension payments

The British student was evacuated to Dubai

‘Blame shifting in the fact of the predicted disaster that is Afghanistan today is extraordinary,’ says senior Tory MP

The Information Commissioner’s Office has said that venues should only ask for ‘relevant and necessary’ data

Lord Tyrie is calling for a clampdown on firms selling tests at inflated prices

‘World of work continues to rebound robustly from the effects of the pandemic’, Office for National Statistics official says

Dominic Raab admits his ‘rapid deployment team’ yet to arrive – amid claim that ‘18-year-old squaddies’ left to process visa applications

The artwork was located in the Suffolk town of Lowestoft

‘They should do the honourable thing and immediately recommit pre-aid cut levels to Afghanistan and support those women and girls who need it now more than ever’

Case will be heard at High Court in London this week

The 234 scientists from 66 countries who authored the report stressed that humanity still has the ability to change course and avoid the worst consequences